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Kellye Garrett

Biography

Kellye Garrett

Kellye Garrett is the author of the award-winning LIKE A SISTER, about a Black woman in New York City looking into the mysterious overdose of her estranged reality star sister. In addition to being featured on the "Today" show, the suspense novel was a Book of the Month April 2022 selection, the Oxygen channel’s July Book Club pick, an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel and Lefty Award winner for Best Mystery. She previously wrote the Detective by Day lightweight mysteries, which have won the Anthony, Agatha, Lefty and IPPY awards. Kellye is also a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color, which received the 2023 Raven Award from MWA.

Kellye Garrett

Books by Kellye Garrett

by Kellye Garrett - Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, she’s shocked. There’s a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found. A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is stranded and out of her depth --- especially when it becomes clear the dead woman is none other than Janelle Beckett, the missing woman the entire internet has become obsessed with. There’s only one person Bree can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past. As the police and a social media mob close in, all looking for #JusticeForJanelle, Bree realizes that the only way she can help Ty --- or herself --- is to figure out what really happened that last night.

by Kellye Garrett - Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

When the body of reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. A tragedy, certainly, but not a crime. Yet Columbia grad student Lena --- principled, headstrong and allergic to the spotlight --- knows that can’t be the case. Despite the bitter truth that the two hadn’t spoken in two years, they were half-sisters. Lena knew Desiree. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. Something is very wrong with the facts. So why is no one listening? While the two sisters had been torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their difficult father, Lena becomes determined to find justice for Desiree. Even if that means untangling her family’s darkest secrets --- or ending up dead herself.